Suzanne Lane
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Suzanne Lane
@suzannelane.bsky.social
Rhetoric / Writing / Engineering Communication / Invention
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NEW: Waymo will issue a recall for the software on its robotaxis after more than 20 documented incidents where they drove past stopped school buses

Story from @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social

techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/w...
Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses | TechCrunch
The voluntary recall comes as scrutiny by federal regulators and local school district officials increases.
techcrunch.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“What have I done!” 🤡
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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One reason not to tell the press in advance about seeking an indictment from the Grand Jury is that a No Bill becomes immediate news when the press asks to see the indictment.

Another reason is to comply with the Justice Manual (www.justice.gov/jm/jm-1-7000...)
Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Last week, I spoke to SCOTUS scholar @leahlitman.bsky.social in an interview about how the Texas map case posed a test for the Roberts court.

It'd show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void Louisiana's, she said.

ICYMI at All Rise News www.allrisenews.com/p/texas-loui...
Texas and Louisiana maps pose test for Roberts Court
SCOTUS scholar Leah Litman says it would show "immense hypocrisy" to uphold Texas maps, but void the Bayou State's.
www.allrisenews.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Often the most activist academics are those on the right, not the left. Here’s a 2023 profile of conservative academic Patrick Deneen, who is a mentor to both JD Vance & Pete Hegseth & who chaired Hegseth’s thesis committee at Princeton.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
‘I Don’t Want to Violently Overthrow the Government. I Want Something Far More Revolutionary.’
Republican politicians are embracing the “postliberal” ideas of Patrick Deneen. But just what is he calling for?
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News.
www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
www.whitehouse.gov
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream.

Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads.

Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I still can't believe we actually let rich people start racking up billions of dollars in unrealized capital gains—the one type of income that doesn't get regularly taxed—and act like we have no idea why our economy is so rigged against us.
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Congressman Adam Smith on @kaitlancollins.bsky.social says "fog of war" idea of Hegseth is "idiotic." It was a 48 minute video of 2 guys hanging off boat. Video was completely clear and visible when the second sortie (3 bombs) occurred.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?

That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Read another thread in which academics discuss the labor of academic publication review — and I'm again reminded of all the systemic failures: commercial publishers pushing for increasing volume, big increase of AI-generated submissions, fewer secure faculty to take on the uncompensated labor...
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Jesus, @cnn.com you put Stephen Miller’s wife on the air

How many times do we have to say it

WHITE SUPREMACY IS NOT A VALID VIEWPOINT

IT DOES NOT DESERVE ANY AIR TIME. EVER

AND BY ALLOWING HER ON A NATIONAL PROGRAM, YOU ARE NORMALIZING HATRED

You are part of the problem

Bigly
Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller: “We are removing every single illegal alien… a majority of those removed have had serious violent crimes.” 🤥

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “That’s FALSE.”

Abby Phillip: “Based on DHS’s own data, a majority have NOT had violent criminal records.”
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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The prohibition is rather specific.

"The DOD Manual is clear because the law here is clear: 'Persons who have been incapacitated by . . . shipwreck are in a helpless state, and it would be dishonorable and inhumane to make them the object of attack.'"
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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⚡️Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds.

A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.
Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds
A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. ...
kyivindependent.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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🤷🏼
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM